Novint Xio - Revolutionary Technology for Gaming Device

Wii, Kinect, Leap motion, and Oculust Rift were the beginnings of a major revolution for gaming, allowing you to get up off the couch and actually experience some of the physical action of games yourself.

After those gaming devices hit the market, recently, Novint, the company that has created the Falcon controller, is taking that up a notch with the Xio, a self-contained force-feedback immersive exoskeletal gaming arm.

Novint Xio is a futuristic gaming controller that uses the prototype of exoskeletal arm that functions as a game controller. You strap it on, and as you wave your arm around, the Xio tracks your movements and translates them into in-game motions. Players have the option to stand in front of the TV like current Wii technologies, or they can sit at a desk and do control with their wrist movements.

The difference between this gaming controller and other controller is that, unlike current motion control technologies, you will be able to feel what is in the game. When you shoot a gun, take a full body golf swing, jump a car, or smash a sword into a shield, you can feel the same physical feelings as your character experiences.

The ability for a game to reach out and gives you the feeling of what your character in the game experiences is something that hasn't yet been taken advantage of, but it really has the potential to make that immersive gaming experience that we all crave even more. At the moment, the most severe consequence that a game can generally inflict on us is annoyance, when you die and have to start something over. With force feedback controllers, there are physical consequences to what you do in game. The physical consequences is not only about the pain that you will get if your character gets hit or damaged by the enemy, but you can directly experience every physical stimulus, such as pistols recoil from shooting with guns, ball texture in sport games, and others. With this controller‘s ability, it'll be much easier for you to immerse yourself in the game world, which is why we play video games in the first place, and it will be a fun part when you using this controller while exercising and playing video games at the same time. 

So, after a brief explanation about Novint Xio above, the next question is, what games does this controller support? Well, in the first place, the plan is to launch Xio with full game support. The Xio is expected to support for most, if not all, major AAA PC titles at launch. Part of the reason we expected this, is that Xio will use the same software base as the Falcon, so the entire Falcon’s game support, either its PC, console, or mobile gaming platform, it will work with Xio.

Besides for the gaming controller, actually Novint Xio can be used for medical applications, telerobotics, scientific visualization, physical therapy, sports training, and military simulation, and other.  

Name                              : Hans Chandra

Lecturer Name                        : Aditya Pratomo 

Campus                              : Surya University
 

http://twistedjunk.com/2012/06/17/the-future-of-motion-control-the-novint-xio/

http://www.novint.com/index.php/novintxio

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/04/novint-xio-force-feedback-immersive-exoskeletal-gaming-arm/